V. I. Lenin

Plans for an Article “The Peasantry and Social-Democracy”{2}

Written:Written not earlier than September 1904Published:First published in 1938 inLenin Miscellany XXXII.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 41,

      pages129-131.1.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org)
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ThePeasantry and Social-Democracy[SQUIGLY]

{1}See present edition, Vol. 3.—Ed.

{2}There is no information about Lenin’s having either written the work or
given a lecture on the subject. The date has been approximated from the
fact that the MS. is on the reverse of the MS. of Lenin’s remarks to Rosa
Luxemburg’s article “The Organisational Questions of Russian
Social-Democracy”, which was published in No. 69 ofIskraon
July 10, 1904.

Thematerial on the study of the works by authors whom Lenin mentions
in-the two plans is published inLenin Miscellany XXXII. This
material was also used by Lenin for his lectures on “Marxist Views of the
Agrarian Question in Europe and Russia”, which he gave at the Russian
Higher School of Social Sciences in Paris from February 10 to 13 (23 to
26), 1903 (seeLenin Miscellany XIX, pp. 225–48).

p. 129

{3}Engels criticised the agrarian programmes of the French and German
Social-Democratic parties in his workThe Peasant Question in France
and Germany(see Marx and Engels,Selected Works, Vol. II,
Moscow, 1962, pp. 420–40).

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